Feminine Divinity Quotes

Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.

For many years I had been aware that women were not only most important creations in the universe, but the nearest approach that man could reach to the divine.

I believe all women know in their heart of hearts that they truly are divine and magical, even if they've temporarily forgotten.

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.

Why have I been chosen to deliver the message of female intelligence and its divinity to a deaf world of males? I have asked my god that question and She answered, 'Hey, why not you Roseanne?' Indeed, why not each of us?

Shalt show us how divine a thing A woman may be made.

"Elohim," the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as "God," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean "goddesses." Al Shaddai, god of battles, appears later, and YHWH, mispronounced Jehovah, later still.

In India the mother is the center of the family and our highest ideal. She is to us the representative of God, as God is the mother of the universe. It was a female sage who first found the unity of God, and laid down this doctrine in one of the first hy mns of the Vedas. Our God is both personal and absolute, the absolute is male, the personal, female. And thus it comes that we now say: 'The first manifestation of God is the hand that rocks the cradle'.

For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.

At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.

When we see all women as the divine mother and all men as the divine father, everyone you meet is sacred.

Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.

The image of the Goddess inspires women to see ourselves as divine, our bodies as sacred, the changing phases of our lives as holy, our aggression as healthy, our anger as purifying, and our power to nurture and create, but also to limit and destroy when necessary, as the very force that sustains all life. Through the Goddess we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions. We can move beyond narrow, constricting roles and become whole.